TBUZZ

There are a variety of services that enable you to talk about whatever you’re looking at online with other people. The problem with a lot of these services is that they develop communities of their own that are closed and not open to the general public. This is fine if there’s a reason why you’d only want to share your thoughts with a specific group of product users, but if you want your comments to spread to a wider audience, you need to expand beyond a product community and communicate through a popular social network. Right now, Twitter is where it’s at, and TBUZZ lets you talk about the sites that you visit through Twitter.

You could always just use Twitter directly or through a third-party service to compose your thoughtful tweets about Web sites, but TBUZZ brings everything together nicely. The service works through a bookmarklet, and when you click on it, a window pops up over the site that you’re currently visiting that enables you to quickly post a tweet about it. A shortened version of the URL will even be included and you can also select text to use. In addition to posting your own thoughts on Twitter, you’ll also see what other Twitter users have said about the site.

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